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Nuclear missile base flunked security drill

Thursday - 5/22/2014, 6:28pm EDT

According to an internal Air Force review obtained by The Associated Press, armed
security forces at a nuclear missile base failed a drill last summer that simulated
the hostile takeover of a missile launch silo because they were unable to speedily
regain control of the captured nuclear weapon. The AP's Robert Burns writes, "the
previously unreported failure, which the Air Force called a `critical deficiency,'
was the reason the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana flunked
its broader safety and security inspection."